A unit of BNK Petroleum Inc., Camarillo, Calif., has acquired 234,000 acres in northern Spain’s Cantabrian basin mainly for shale gas targets.
The company said the concession, in the autonomous community of Castile and Leon, also has conventional oil and gas potential.
The main target is a Jurassic shale that is 100 m to more than 200 m thick at 2,500-4,500 m in the most prospective areas. The structure and stratigraphy are defined by numerous existing 2D seismic lines and dozens of wells drilled by other operators. Most of the previously drilled wells had oil and-or gas shows in the shale interval and in fractured carbonates above and below the shale.
BNK’s Trofagas Hidrocarburos SL said the concession terms include minimum requirements including geological work in the first year, drilling two wells each in years two, three, and four, and three wells in year five.
Alan Petzet | Chief Editor Exploration
Alan Petzet is Chief Editor-Exploration of Oil & Gas Journal in Houston. He is editor of the Weekly E&D Newsletter, emailed to OGJ subscribers, and a regular contributor to the OGJ Online subscriber website.
Petzet joined OGJ in 1981 after 13 years in the Tulsa World business-oil department. He was named OGJ Exploration Editor in 1990. A native of Tulsa, he has a BA in journalism from the University of Tulsa.
